#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Trump says he’s taking unproven drug hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus

Well that's one way to avoid incarceration after leaving the White House.

I'm convinced that his doc probably realized that he'd be sacked if he didn't comply, so he's prescribed him placebos rather than try to cure the patient of his stupidity.

 

[Sredni Eel]

Why can't his doctor prescribe Propofol and let him know "It's okay to use as much as you want."?

 

[Kara Spengler]

So maybe he was taking it for decades?

 

[Kara Spengler]

Well that's one way to avoid incarceration after leaving the White House.

I'm convinced that his doc probably realized that he'd be sacked if he didn't comply, so he's prescribed him placebos rather than try to cure the patient of his stupidity.

It depends what doctor he talked to. If it was the one that basically felated him via a medical report he would have prescribed it. Any sane doctor would have either said no or given a placebo.

Most people would just google a drug name and learn it was a placebo. He is not most people though.

 

[Sovereignty]

If he's using it with zinc, there is some evidence that works, at least in a pre-published article.

zinc may have a role in preventing the virus from progressing to severe disease, but once the aberrant production of systemic immune mediators is initiated, known as the cytokine storm, the addition of zinc may no longer be effective

But there is another angle to explore, e.g,.:

Post-exposure Prophylaxis / Preemptive Therapy for SARS-Coronavirus-2 (COVID-19 PEP)

Hmmm. Maybe there is evidence that Trump was directly exposed to the virus.
ETA: The study cited above was supposed to wrap up around May 14. Maybe some preliminary findings leaked?
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[Romana]

Odds are he's got a condition that contraindicates the use of Plaquenil, or is on medications that would clash with it, so we may get lucky. Or not; a number of other things should have got to him by now and haven't.
The paranoia, though? Pretty sure he had that before COVID.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I suppose, because of the unique access to medical assistance Trump enjoys, his physician must think that most of the side effects will, should they occur, be easily detected and managed.

 

[Romana]

I suppose, because of the unique access to medical assistance Trump enjoys, his physician must think that most of the side effects will, should they occur, be easily detected and managed.

Welp, he might have his hands full:


It continually amazes me that all this is fine with the Republicans in Congress.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It continually amazes me that all this is fine with the Republicans in Congress.

It's long been a truism that, were the CEO or President of a public company to behave the way Trump does, he'd long, long ago have been removed from his post, just as would any regular employee, and advised to seek medical attention.

Similarly if a friend or relative were to behave similarly, we'd be extremely concerned, and begging them to seek help.

Maybe people who've been enabling him for so long now think that the situation is so dire -- pandemic, national and international economic crisis, increasingly erratic and delusional President -- that trying to remove him would simply make matters worse.

It's a bit like one imagines it would be like to be stuck as a passenger being driven at speed along hazardous roads by someone high on crack and amphetamines -- how do you wrest control of the car from him without crashing it, and you and all the passengers with it?

Some Republican senators must now be wishing they'd voted to convict -- to think that 25 of them could, with hindsight, saved so many lives simply by doing what they should have done rather than by what seemed polically expedient.

This must be how the gods punish oathbreakers -- unfortunately, when they govern the country, everyone else gets zapped, too.

 

[Free]

Ahahaha!

Pelosi: Trump is at grave risk taking hydroxychloroquine because he’s old and ‘morbidly obese’

On Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that she believes President Donald Trump’s decision to take hydroxychloroquine is dangerous for his health, given his age and weight.

“He’s out president and I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by scientists, especially in his age group and in his, shall we say, weight group,” said Pelosi. “Morbidly obese, they say.”

He's gonna blow a fucking gasket.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Sovereignty]

I'm assuming they know Trump was exposed to the virus or has a definite risk of exposure. Given that obesity is a prime risk factor for death from COVID-19, it's not a clear choice between that and possible side effects from hydroxychloroquine.

FWIW This is a planned study, High-dose Hydroxychloroquine for the Treatment of Ambulatory Patients With Mild COVID-19

tolerability study of high dose HCQ therapy in outpatient adult participants with mild COVID-19. In vitro studies have shown antiviral effects of HCQ against SARS Cov-2, but the clinical outcomes in the disease have been variable. Our hypothesis is that targeting high risk patients earlier in the disease course and with a higher dose regimen are both required to see improvement in disease outcome measures in COVID-19. This study aims to prove the tolerability of high dose HCQ in this setting.

Apparently it is the high dosage that raises the risk of serious side effects?

This furor was not expected by the people who did the first in vitro studies of remdesivir and chloroquine. They publicized their results in a letter to Nature on Feb. 4.

Our findings reveal that remdesivir and chloroquine are highly effective in the control of 2019-nCoV infection in vitro. Since these compounds have been used in human patients with a safety track record and shown to be effective against various ailments, we suggest that they should be assessed in human patients suffering from the novel coronavirus disease.

And hydroxychloroquine is supposed to be better tolerated than chloroquine.

It was much less controversial before Trump ... well, not a pleasant image.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Hoarse’s mentions are gonna be wild.

 

[Sredni Eel]

It looks like thanks to the Pandemic, the Palo Alto Unified School District is going to have an $18 MILLION budget shortfall, and they may have to lay off a bunch of classified staff, which is what I am.

I blame Trump for this. Completely.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Ahahaha!

Pelosi: Trump is at grave risk taking hydroxychloroquine because he’s old and ‘morbidly obese’




He's gonna blow a fucking gasket.

Yeah, if he did not tweet about that yet he lost his phone.

 

[Fionalein]

Yeah, if he did not tweet about that yet he lost his phone.

Tips to the hat for Nancy, by advising him not to jug the drug she will make him endorse it even more. Neat one!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Hoarse’s mentions are gonna be wild.

 

[Kara Spengler]

His people are not exactly fast on the uptake. One did the usual thing of talking about other things that killed people so I asked questions like how many masks do people wear to prevent catching a car crash. They cheerily answered zero. My response was to thank them for agreeing with me. The response back was what you would expect from someone without a good grasp on language skills.